The role of the United States in Yemen — for decades — stands out as one of hegemony and arrogance, violating sovereignty, and seizing and controlling the country’s resources, at a time when agents and traitors were submissive, obedient followers of the American, carrying out every one of his orders.

Multiple media outlets have published in recent days that an American committee is present in occupied Yemeni governorates, working to register and vet mercenaries to use them as fuel for any upcoming war. There are American efforts to establish training headquarters and workshops to manufacture drones and explosives, under the supervision of mercenaries and foreign experts.

Since the loss of its influence in Yemen after the victory of the September 21, 2014, revolution, Washington has worked to restore its former glory in Yemen, but it finds only Yemen’s traitors and mercenaries as a bridge to achieve this ambition. Therefore, today’s scene is clearer regarding the American–Zionist movement in the occupied southern and eastern governorates, and the use of mercenaries as tools to carry out dirty American–Zionist tasks.

The Beginning of the American Penetration

The incident of targeting the destroyer Cole is considered the starting point for the United States to strengthen its intervention in Yemen. After the incident, the traitor Ali Abdullah Saleh carried out a visit to Washington, and the so‑called "counterterrorism" agreement was signed, which, among its fruits allowed the Americans to violate Yemeni airspace with unmanned aerial vehicles, under the pretext of targeting so‑called Al-Qaeda elements. The first operation began by targeting Abu Ali al-Harthi on 5 November 2002, accused of planning the attack on the American destroyer Cole.

With the accession of the traitor Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power in 2012, cooperation with the United States reached its peak within what is known as the "war on terror." During his first visit to Washington in September 2012, Hadi met with President Barack Obama, where he reiterated the commitments of his predecessor, Ali Abdullah Saleh regarding counterterrorism.

A year after that visit — specifically on 30 May 2013 — the United States carried out a direct military operation, in which a unit of U.S. Marines stormed several citizens' homes in Lahj governorate in southern Yemen. Hostile American operations against Yemenis then continued openly; on 12 December 2013, a U.S. drone struck a wedding convoy of 11 vehicles in Al-Bayda governorate in central Yemen, and the strike killed no fewer than 12 people and wounded at least 15 others.

The September 21 Revolution: A Severe Blow to the Americans

After the victory of the September 21, 2014, revolution, the United States lost its traditional center of political influence, so it decided to close its embassy in Sana'a, and the American mission left the capital on 11 February 2015. Yet American strikes continued on Yemen under the pretext of targeting Al-Qaeda. Shortly after the start of the American‑Saudi aggression on Yemen in 2015, these operations rose from 21 strikes in 2016 to at least 131 strikes in 2017. A report in The New York Times indicated that a team of U.S. special forces (the Green Berets) was operating alongside Saudi forces on the Saudi–Yemeni border.

Moreover, the American military presence in Yemen became evident through the deployment of a large number of U.S. forces at Riyan Airport in Hadhramaut governorate since 2017, in parallel with Emirati forces, where the airport was converted into a military base, leading to the suspension of civilian flights.

During the early period of Trump's administration, Yemen witnessed many prominent military events involving U.S. intervention, most notably the Battle of Hodeidah, where Washington gave the green light for the attack on Hodeidah. On that occasion the then‑chairman of the Supreme Political Council, Saleh al‑Sammad, addressed U.S. Ambassador Matthew Tueller during his visit to the governorate on 18 April 2018, saying: "I received information that the American ambassador said he would go to Hodeidah, and that its people would greet him with roses, but we will greet him with the daggers of our weapons." A day after this statement, al‑Sammad was assassinated in an airstrike by an MQ‑9 drone, and from the first moment, the leader Sayyid Abdul‑Malik al‑Houthi accused the United States of carrying out the assassination, saying: "American assistance in the assassination of al‑Sammad was decisive; it was America that carried out the operation against the president and his companions."

Trump announced on 20 October 2019 the deployment of an additional 3,000 troops to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to counter what he described as "provocative acts by Iran," and the United States also confirmed the formation of a new naval force to be stationed in the Arabian Gulf to, as it said, "protect maritime routes," which it attributed to so‑called "Houthi and Iranian piracy."

U.S. activity in Yemen continued during the presidency of Joe Biden: in July 2021, 100 U.S. soldiers arrived at Riyan Airport in Hadhramaut and were stationed there alongside previously deployed American forces.

On the morning of Tuesday, 13 October 2021, a U.S. Navy unit based at Riyan Airport carried out a wide raid on the city of Ghayl Bawazir in Hadhramaut, erecting checkpoints and barriers, releasing police dogs, employing armored vehicles and ambulances, and conducting street sweeps — revealing the scale of the large American military presence in the coastal areas of Hadhramaut.

Where U.S. Forces Are Deployed

U.S. forces are present in Yemen, numbering more than 300 troops, distributed across several southern governorates, including:

• Aden Governorate: where the coalition headquarters is in the Al‑Bariqah area.

• Lahj Governorate: at the Al‑And military base.

• Shabwah Governorate: at the Balhaf gas facility site.

• Hadhramaut Governorate: at Riyan Airport in Al‑Mukalla city.

• Al‑Mahrah Governorate: at Al‑Ghaydah Airport.

• Socotra: including the areas of Hadibo and Abd al‑Kuri.

The revolutionary and political leadership affirms zero tolerance for foreign presence in Yemen. In a previous speech, the leader Abdul‑Malik Badruldeen al‑Houthi warned foreign forces present on Yemeni soil — including American, British, Saudi, and Emirati forces — saying to them: "Leave all our governorates, and our territorial waters. We do not allow any American or British military presence, whether on an island or at any airport or facility in any governorate." He added: "The American is in the position of the occupying aggressor; he must remove his soldiers from any base in our country, and he must leave our land," stressing that "Sana'a will continue with all options, with all efforts, and in all fields, to attain full freedom and complete independence, and to cleanse every corner of our homeland from all foreign occupation."